Famous Artist Banksy Unofficially Cooperates With Basquiat Outside the Barbican

Only days before the opening of this initial large-scale UK exhibition of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat‘s work in the Barbican, Banksy stopped at night to install two new murals. The first, which he refers to as a “portrait of Basquiat being welcomed by the Metropolitan Police,” depicts a figure isolated from Basquiat’s famous 1982 painting, Dog, and Boy in a Johnnypump, being frisked by two police officers as a dog watches nearby. The second shows a line of customers queuing to get a ride aboard a Ferris wheel of Basquiat’s iconic crowns drawn in oil pastel.